Comment ... to ensure a commenter is a real person (Score 1) 1
Hmm. . . which FB id should I use to respond to this post?
Submission + - Facebook offers easy commenting alternative (wired.com) 1
Spice Consumer writes: Facebook has just unvield a "...new system (that) lets website owners replace their current commenting system with Facebook’s simply by dropping in a few lines of Javascript." How widely adopted this new system becomes could greatly affect Facebook's already entrenched position on the web and further compromise individual user's privacy.
Submission + - Google AdSense adverts banned on Facebook (geek.com)
Anonymous Coward writes: "There are many advertising companies on the Internet all wanting to offer developers and website owners the opportunity to generate revenue from ads on their sites and services. By far and away the largest and most well-known is Google AdSense, which Google counts as its biggest revenue stream.
Until recently AdSense was allowed on Facebook, meaning any developer wanting to support a Facebook app with adverts could use Google. However, that is no longer the case, and AdSense has been effectively banned from the social network.
In order to be listed as an advertising provider on Facebook, companies has to sign up for the Facebook Platform Terms of Advertising Providers and agree to Facebook’s policies. The deadline for getting on to that list was February 28, and as of today AdSense is not on the list."
Until recently AdSense was allowed on Facebook, meaning any developer wanting to support a Facebook app with adverts could use Google. However, that is no longer the case, and AdSense has been effectively banned from the social network.
In order to be listed as an advertising provider on Facebook, companies has to sign up for the Facebook Platform Terms of Advertising Providers and agree to Facebook’s policies. The deadline for getting on to that list was February 28, and as of today AdSense is not on the list."
Submission + - Judge allows subpoenas for GeoHot YouTube viewers (wired.com)
PhrostyMcByte writes: "Stepping up Sony's lawsuit against PS3 jailbreak developer George Hotz, this Thursday a judge approved multiple subpoenas which seek logs of all viewers and commenters to his YouTube video, visitors to his blog and website, and all information associated with his Twitter account."
Submission + - Aussie Brewery Creates Space Beer (discovery.com) 1
astroengine writes: "An Australian brewing company has created the world's first beer that can be consumed in space. 4-Pines Brewing Company teamed up with Saber Astronautics Australia, tirelessly testing different brews on zero-G flights last year. They have now finalized the winning formula, calling the beer "Vostok" — after the spacecraft flown by Yuri Gagarin in 1961. The beverage is a strong-tasting stout with reduced carbonation to avoid the dreaded microgravity "wet burp.""
Submission + - How "clean" do GPL-BSD translations have to be?
antifoidulus writes: "There is a (relatively) simple library that I would like to convert from C++ to C, and then incorporate into a BSD licensed project I am working on.
Am I allowed to look at the GPL code, convert it, then release the result as BSD? Or do I have to go more "clean room" and totally re-implement the algorithm without looking at the GPL code.
Yes I know the standard "get a lawyer" answer, but I was wondering if anyone had any experience with this."
Am I allowed to look at the GPL code, convert it, then release the result as BSD? Or do I have to go more "clean room" and totally re-implement the algorithm without looking at the GPL code.
Yes I know the standard "get a lawyer" answer, but I was wondering if anyone had any experience with this."
Submission + - How should culture and knowledge be produced in th (fcforum.net)
flemmingbjerke writes: "In Barcelona 2010, FCforum was established in order to formulate a charter for rights to creativity in the digital age. Now FCforum has launched a howto for sustainable models of creativity in the digital age.
"The production of culture should not be simply seen as synonymous with generating profit, and the new sustainable economic models should not be detrimental to the free circulation of knowledge. The real challenge lies in grasping that there is such a thing as culture without money, even though it is possible to make money from culture. "
"It is our responsibility, as civil society, to oppose practices that plunder this common heritage and to block its future development.""
"The production of culture should not be simply seen as synonymous with generating profit, and the new sustainable economic models should not be detrimental to the free circulation of knowledge. The real challenge lies in grasping that there is such a thing as culture without money, even though it is possible to make money from culture. "
"It is our responsibility, as civil society, to oppose practices that plunder this common heritage and to block its future development.""
Submission + - Russia's Top ePayment Firm Is Top Rogue AV Player (krebsonsecurity.com)
An anonymous reader writes: Brian Krebs has posted a deep dive through more than a year worth of emails leaked from ChronoPay, Russia's largest online credit card processor. The story uses the documents to show how ChronoPay has worked to corner the market for processing rogue anti-virus or "scareware," and the evidence indicates that ChronoPay executives created scareware companies from the ground up, paying for everything form their domain name registration to virtual hosting, to setting up the front companies and associated bank accounts and the 1-800 support lines for entire scareware operations that typically netted the company millions in revenue for each scam.
Submission + - Posting AC - a thing of the past? (indystar.com) 1
c0lo writes: A Marion County judge has ruled, for the first time in Indiana, that news media outlets can be ordered by the court to reveal identifying information about posters to their online forums.
If you think that this will affect only posting on /. or the like, think again: according to TFA, under threat seems to be no less than the right of the media outlets to protect the identity of their sources.
If you think that this will affect only posting on
Submission + - vendor-sec hacked, and gone (openwall.com)
An anonymous reader writes: It appears that the machine hosting the vendor-sec mailing list used by vendors to disclose security issues in advance has been was broken-in. After the public announcement of the break-in, the hacker penetrated the host again, and destroyed it. The feature of such kind of list is to be decided.
Submission + - Why is Google so bad at information security? (securecomputing.net.au)
natecochrane writes: Despite a Mensa-level median IQ of its engineers, Google lacks the cultural commitment to information security and its ambivalence to such issues threatens cloud adoption, writes SC Magazine's Australian editor in chief. Whether it's Android malware or Gmail failures, Google's hands-off approach to security has to be turned around, he argues. It needs to cross the security Rubicon Microsoft forded 10 years ago before it adopted Trustworthy Computing to remain relevant to a web-dependent society.
Submission + - FB Resumes Plan to Disclose User Address & Pho (epic.org)
FtDFtM writes: Facebook indicated in a letter to Rep. Markey (D-MA) and Rep. Barton (R-TX) that it will go forward with a proposal to provide users' addresses and mobile phone numbers to third-party application developers. The Congressman earlier expressed concern about the proposal. Facebook also wrote that it may disclose the home addresses and mobile numbers of minors who use the social networking service. Facebook suspended the plan after EPIC and others objected. EPIC and several consumer organizations have complaints pending at the Federal Trade Commission concerning Facebook's earlier changes to users' privacy settings."
Facebook's rational is:
"The framework is predicated on the assumption that, because users will not typically authorize applications that request access to too much information — indeed, our data show that, on average, each additional category of information an application requests results in a 3% reduction in user click-through rates — applications will not typically ask for more information than they need to operate
Facebook's rational is:
"The framework is predicated on the assumption that, because users will not typically authorize applications that request access to too much information — indeed, our data show that, on average, each additional category of information an application requests results in a 3% reduction in user click-through rates — applications will not typically ask for more information than they need to operate
Submission + - Student sues FBI for planting GPS tracker (yahoo.com)
GabriellaKat writes: This story was also covered last year when he found the tracking device.
"Yasir Afifi, 20, says a mechanic doing an oil change on his car in October discovered the device stuck with magnets between his right rear wheel and exhaust. They weren't sure what it was, but Afifi had the mechanic remove it and a friend posted photos of it online to see whether anyone could identify it. Two days later, Afifi says, agents wearing bullet-proof vests pulled him over as he drove away from his apartment in San Jose, Calif., and demanded their property back."
Now he has decided to sue the FBI
"Yasir Afifi, 20, says a mechanic doing an oil change on his car in October discovered the device stuck with magnets between his right rear wheel and exhaust. They weren't sure what it was, but Afifi had the mechanic remove it and a friend posted photos of it online to see whether anyone could identify it. Two days later, Afifi says, agents wearing bullet-proof vests pulled him over as he drove away from his apartment in San Jose, Calif., and demanded their property back."
Now he has decided to sue the FBI
Submission + - Facebook activist assasinated (monstersandcritics.com)
An anonymous reader writes: Will our government react to this? It is clear that news from middle east is still strongly censored, makes you wonder what sort of atrocity would happen there if there was no mass communication.
Submission + - Opera for iPhone available if you're older than 17 (yahoo.com)
heptapod writes: This week Opera became the first non-native browser available through the Mac app store. Apple has gone ahead and given it a 17+ rating for "Frequent/Intense Mature/Suggestive Themes". Jan Standal at Opera was ">quoted "I'm very concerned. Seventeen is very young, and I am not sure if, at that age, people are ready to use such an application. It's very fast, you know, and it has a lot of features. I think the download requirement should be at least 18."
